About
The Programme supports parents perinatally (i.e. before and after the birth) to reflect on their developing baby, tune in to their baby’s feelings and behaviour and respond sensitively (known as reflective functioning). This helps parent-baby bonding and attachment, and reduces the risk to the early parent–baby relationship, helping to prevent isolation, anxiety and low-level depression.
All sessions are a mix of discussion, video clips, sharing of relevant research and advice, songs/rhymes and story sharing, all underpinned by the focus on reflective functioning. After the initial phone conversation with the parent/s, we offer five group sessions of about an hour each, focusing on:
- Getting to know each other
- Supportive networks
- Transition to parenthood
- The developing brain, and emotional support
- Baby states
Following these five sessions, we offer a reunion session once the babies are born. Throughout the course we also signpost parents to other groups or provision within their local community.
Contact
Highland Peep Facebook page: Highland Peep | Inverness | Facebook
Email: gillian.forbes@highland.gov.uk